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he was in the Town Hall all night dealing with souls overwhelmed with deep
conviction of sin.
When the morning dawned, this minister tells us, he started for his home,
but as he went up the street he found people standing on their doorsteps
waiting for him to pass, because there were people under conviction of sin
in their homes, and they wanted to invite him in to deal with them. He went

into one home after another, and there were so many to deal with that the
sun had set before he reached his own home. The whole town of Coleraine
was so transformed and so impressed that in completing the Town Hall they
put in an inscribed tablet dedicating the hall to the memory of the revival.

PRAYING THROUGH
I think it was at the close of the week of prayer in January, 1901,
that Miss Strong, Superintendent of Women of the Bible Institute of Chicago,
came to me and said, “Why not keep up these prayer meetings at least
once a week after the week of prayer is over, and pray for a world-wide
revival?”
This suggestion approved itself to the Faculty and we appointed a
prayer meeting every Saturday night from nine to ten o’clock (after
the popular Bible Class was over) at which people could gather to pray
for just one thing - a world-wide revival. Three or four hundred gathered
every Saturday night for that purpose, and God gave to us great liberty and
great expectation in prayer.
Soon we began to hear of the working of God in Japan and other
lands, and yet the work was not as general as we wanted to see. People
would come to me and to my colleague who was most intimately associated
with me in the conduct of the meetings, and ask, “Has the revival come?”
We replied, “No, not as far as we know.” “When is it coming ?” “We
do not know.” “How long are you going to keep praying?” “Until it
comes.”
TWO MEN FROM AUSTRALIA
After we had been praying for some months two men from far away
Australia appeared in our lecture room. After they had been attending
the lectures for some time, they asked for a private conversation with
me. They told me that in leaving Australia they had been commissioned
to go to England, to Keswick and other places and to other gatherings in